What the stats say ahead of Barca v Bayern

Barcelona have lost nine of their 12 Uefa Champions League matches against Bayern Munich (W2 D1), including the last five in a row. Only Bayern Munich themselves against Real Madrid (10) have lost more games against a single opponent in Champions League history.

Bayern Munich have won three of their five away Uefa Champions League matches against Barcelona (L2), the most of any side in the competition’s history. Along with Juventus and Real Madrid, they are one of three teams to have won more than they’ve lost away at Barça in the Champions League.

Barcelona have lost their last two home games against German opponents in European competition – 0-3 v Bayern Munich in September 2021 in the Uefa Champions League and 2-3 v Eintracht Frankfurt in April this year in the Uefa Europa League. They have never previously lost three in a row at home to German opposition.

Bayern have only suffered defeat on one of their previous five away trips to face Spanish sides in the Uefa Champions League (W2 D2), although that loss did come on the most recent one – 0-1 v Villarreal in last season’s quarterfinal first leg.

Barcelona could be eliminated in the group stage in consecutive Uefa Champions League campaigns for just the second time, having previously done so in 1997-98 and 1998-99 under Louis van Gaal.

If Bayern Munich win this game, it will be just the fifth time that Barcelona have been beaten twice by the same team in a Uefa Champions League campaign. Indeed, Bayern have been responsible for three of the previous four (1998-99, 2012-13 and 2021-22), with Dynamo Kyiv being the only other side to manage it (in 1997-98).

No team have scored more goals with 10+ passes in the build-up than Bayern Munich in the Uefa Champions League this season (3), with one of those coming in the reverse fixture against Barcelona at the Allianz Arena last month.

Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has scored 52 goals in 53 home games in the Uefa Champions League (38 for Bayern Munich, nine for Borussia Dortmund and five for Barcelona). His five goals at the Spotify Camp Nou for his current club is the most ever by a Barcelona player in his first two home games in the competition.

Bayern Munich midfielder Leon Goretzka has been directly involved in five goals in his last two matches in the Uefa Champions League (two goals, three assists), as many as he was in his 21 appearances in the competition beforehand combined.

All four of Leroy Sané’s goals in the Uefa Champions League this season have been scored following a carry (moving 5+ metres with the ball); the most by any player in the competition this term.